From resilience perspective, it is important for supply chains to have multiple suppliers in order to maintain a high level of operational performance. On the contrary, keeping multiple suppliers are expensive from purchasing perspective, because, large amount of internal resources are required...

In a world where customization has become commonplace, can companies still standardize their purchasing practices? The increasingly complicated and globalized nature of supply base suggests that standardization may not be so easy to implement. This article delineates how a European-based...

The European Programme for Critical Infrastructure Protection (EPCIP) defines a series of measures for the protection and resilience of critical infrastructures. The dependencies of critical infrastructures and supply chains in Europe on critical infrastructures outside EU is high in the agenda....